In Black Shoe Carrier Admiral, the author states "He briefly contemplated merging TF 1, TF8 and Kaskakia at point strike 1100 miles north of Oahu but regained his senses. "King would only commit the old battleships to action without proper air support. [mistake?] Nimitz cut short Pye's cruise and told him to take TF-1 to San Pedro." This was after initially failing to find evidence of a Japanese incursion in the Aleutians and before being aware that the Japanese were planning to attack Midway.
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I also found this wonderful website listing where task forces were at any one time. http://pacific.valka.cz/forces/tf1.htm